The parents of Archie Battersbee have filed an application to the Supreme Court in a bid to extend his life-sustaining treatment to allow time for a United Nations committee to consider the 12-year-old’s case.
Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee last week made an application to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to review Archie’s case, and the committee issued a request that the UK government “refrain from withdrawing” his treatment while it considers their complaint.
However, a letter sent on Sunday on behalf of Health Secretary Steve Barclay requested that the matter be urgently reviewed by the courts and a Court of Appeal hearing was held on Monday, following which three senior judges refused to further extend the stay on withdrawing Archie’s treatment. Read more:'We're lucky we didn't have two murders': Girls - 13 and 16 - hurt when gunman opened fire on crowd at family gathering Sir Andrew McFarlane said there would be a short stay put in place until 12pm today to allow Ms Dance and Mr Battersbee time to make an application for permission to appeal to the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court has now confirmed it has received such an application and that it is being considered by a panel of three justices.
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